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STATE FOREST SERVICE DEPARTMENT. Receipts and Payments Account for*the Year ended 31st March, 1921. £ s. d. £ s. To Cash in hand, Ist April, 1920 .. .. 5,516 18 7 By Interest on debentures .. .. .. 6,126 6 Loan Account —Debentures issued .. .. 70,000 0 0 Afforestation: Nurseries and plantations— Revenue from State forests and provisional Materials, buildings, plant- £ s. d. State forests, rents, royalties, &c... . .M 6.815 8 5 ing, &o. .. .. 49,326 11 7 Revenue from nurseries and plantations— Extension of nurseries and £ s. d. plantations .. .. 157 6 0 Trees .. .. ..913711 Expenses of survey .. 250 0 0 Firewood and poles .. .. 318 2 2 49,733 17 Seeds .. .. .. 150 8 7 State forests — Sheep—wool, skins, and grazing 659 4 9 Management expenses .. 2,701 311 Rental of departmental houses 652 15 8 Forest reconnaissance .. 317 19 4 Sundries .. .. .. 8 17 6 Kauri - gum — Expenses of 2,702 16 7 collection .. .. 100 0 10 Nurseries and plantations—Proceeds of sale of Collection of tree-seeds .. 9 17. 4 horses.. .. .. .. .. 179 0 0 Survey of Trounson's Kauri Forest .. .. 81 17 4 3,210 18 Administration and sundries — Salaries and allowances .. 17,594 18 3 Temporary clerical assistance 466 19 0 Travelling-expenses .. 2,174 13 3 Office furniture, technical instruments .. .. 3,852 19 6 Typewriters—Purchase and maintenance .. .. 216 14 5 Rent .. .. .. 706 12 9 Books, advertising, light, and cartage .. .. 297 17 8 Telephones, telegrams, and postages .. .. 469 8 7 Motor vehicles — Purchase and maintenance .. 121 9 2 Specimens of N.Z. timber .. 55 0 6 Cost of printing Sir D. Hutchins's report (less sales) 481 12 1 Silvicultural and ecological investigations .. .. 168 5 4 26,606 10 Cash at 31st March, 1921— In Public Account .. 9,484 12 5 Imprest outstanding .. 51 17 9 9,536 10 2 £95,214 3 7 £95,214 3 7 L. Maclntosh Ellis, Director of Forestry. A. W. Gyles, Accountant. sth October, 1921. E. Phillips Turner, Secretary. The statement has been examined and agrees with the total receipts and expenditure as disclosed by the Treasury accounts. —Robert J. Collins, Controller and Auditor-General.